Apparatus for coating confections



May?, 1929. HV1/,HARPER y 1,711,599

APPARATUS FOR COATING CONFECTIONS Filed July 2e, 17927 2 sheets-sheet l Illmllll Il if May 7, 1929. HLW, HARPER APPARATUS FOR COATING CONFECTIONS Filed July 26, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 r l i www,

Patented .May 7, 1929.v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

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APPARATUS FOR COATING CONFECTIONS.

p Y Application led July 26,

I of this character which is simple in construction, easy to manipulate and permit rapid production of the coated confection.

With the foregoing and other objects in viewwhich will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus some of the lconfections to be coated being shown in position thereon.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the structure shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged vertical transverse Ysection showing one confection inverted during the coating operation and another confection ready to be inverted.

Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectlon on an enlarged scale through one end portion of the apparatusl showing the disk holdin and centering means.

igure 5 is a perspective view of one of the confection holders. y

Referring to the `figures by characters of' reference 1 designates a base of any su1table material provided, near its ends, with standards 2 on which are mounted parallel spaced strips 3 each provided with a longltudinal series of spaced apertures 4. 'These s trips 3 are connected to the standard 2 by hinges -5 and the strips normally rest on the standards. Spacing gaskets or washers 6 are secured to one face of each .of the strips 3 and have openings 7 therein registerlng w1th the openings 4. These gaskets may be held the tankas to depend therefrom In the accompanying drawings, the pre--4 the strips 3 1927,. Serial No. 208,642.

to the strips 3 by an adhesive or by anyI other suitableI means. Each strip is preferably provided With a handle 8 by means of which it can be readily moved lnto or out of position upon the standards 2.

Interposed between the standards is an elongated tank 9 adapted to'hold coating material. This tank terminates below the normal level of the strip 3 and is so located that when either of these strips is swung to inverted position, said strip will overhang and rest thereon as shown at the left of Figure 3.

One end of the base 1 has an. extension 10 provided with spaced upstanding arcuate members 11 forming between them a disk receiving pocket 12. Extending upwardly within this pocket at the center -thereof'lis a centering prong 13.

Extending from each of the strips 3 so when the strips are resting on the standards 2,' are series of gripping springs 14. These s rings are designed to bear against and rlctionally hold small llsticks 15 insertible through the openings 4 and 7 and also extending through disks 16 are paraiined paper or the like which are held frictionally on thev sticks. The upper ends fof the sticks are preferably pointed as .shown at 17. The pressure of the springs serves to bind the sticks upon opposed in which securely against' displacement.

portions of the walls of the openings" One of these sticks with a disk 16 thereon is adapted to be inserted into each of the openings 7 and the openings 4 thereunder Y vl so that the disk will rest on the spacing washer or gasket 6 while the sticks 15 will be frictionally engaged by the springs 14. After the sticks have been placed in one of with the disk 16 located at the side, ice cream is placed on the upper ends ofthe sticks land `the disks surroundiln them, an ice cream dipper or scoop of stan ard size being used for this purpose. Thus all of the portions of ice cream mounted on the series A coating material such as thick chocolate or the like is contained in the tank 9. l After the ice ycream has been distributed over the series of disks on one of the strips3 said strip is swung to an. inverted position soas to bring the ice cream into the contents of the tank 9. Immediately thereafter the strip 3 is swung back to normal position on the of disks will beof the Asame size. 105

standards 2 and the 'coatin material allowed to harden. During this ipping operation and hardening operation additional portions' of ice cream are placed on the disks' 16 and 15 carried by the other strip 3. rlFhus the two strips can be operated alternately, a series of eonfections being dipped at each operation.

The confection, after being dipped and after the coating has hardened, can be sold to customers or can be stored in a cold place for reservation.

T e pocket 12 is designed to hold a supply of disks, these disks being centered by prong 13.

By providing the springs 14 the confections are prevented rom slipping downwardl too far into the contents of the tank 9 durmg the dipping operation.v The spaeing members 6 -serve to prevent the coating material from adhering to the strips.

In the drawing the portions of ice cream on the disks 16 have been indicated at 18.

What is claimed is:

The combination with a base, and upstanding supporting means thereon at the sides thereof, of a tank supported by the base between-said upstanding means, oppositely disposed strips hingedly connected to said supporting means and separately in sertable to position over the tank, there being a longitudinal series of apertures in each of the strips, yielding retaining means supported in an inclined position adjacent each ot the apertures, sticks insertable through the respective apertures into frictional engagement with the ends of the retaining means, said means pressing the sticks laterally to bind them against opposed portions of the wall of the aperture in which they are seated, confection supporting disks carried by the sticks, spacing devices on each strip for holding the disks away from the strips, said sticks and disks being invertible with the strip thereby to support an engaged confection within the tank, and a disk holding oeket on the base beyond one end of the tan said pocket including opposed upstanding walls and a i centering pin.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atlixed my signature.

HOBART W. HARPER. 

